Improved dumping-wagon



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No. 93,828. I Pat e'nte d Aug. 17; 1869.

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Patenied Aug. 17,?1869.

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Dumping Wagon.

provided with my said invention.

tinned fittin CYRUS T. MOORE, OF GlLMANTOhI, HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 93,828, dated August 17, 1869.

IMPROVED DUMPING-WAGON.-

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, CYRUS T. MOORE, of Gihnahton, of the county of- Belknap, and State of New Hampshire, have made a newand useful invention,

having reference to Dumping-Wagons; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying. drawings, of which Figure l is a top 'view,

Figure"), a bottom view,

Figure 3, a front-end elevation,

Figure 4, a rear-end elevation, and

Figure 5, a transverse sectionof a dumping-wagon The wagon body, represented at A, is open at bottom, except in having a bar, B, ext-ended across its middle lengthwise, and all beyond its ends, the said bar being bevelled in opposite directions on its upper face. To the said open bottom, two doors, 0 D, are hinged, so as to enable such doors to be dropped from ahorizontal position into a vertical one, in order to discharge from the wagon-body a load of earth or other matter. These doors, hinged at their outer edges to tl'ie wagon-body, (the hinges being shown at aa a a,) are, when in a 'horizontal position, sustained therein by means of series of turn-buttons or short levers,b b b, pivoted to the wider side of the cross-bar B.

The several levers or turn-buttons are connected at or near one end of oaclnby a bar, 0, which is pivoted to them.

A connecting-rod, d, also'pivoted to the opposite end of the first -tu1'n-button,'is also pivoted to the lower arm of a hand-lever, 1*), whose fulcrum projects from the bar B. This lever is arranged'aside of the driversseat F, and its upper arm is extended through the slot 6 of a stationary guide-bar, G, arranged and formed in manner as represented.

A bent lever, H, hinged to the barG, and disposed near the innerend of its slot, serves, when turned down upon the bar, to hold t-lie-hand-lever inplace against the rear end of the slot; and thereby hold the several turn-buttons in their positions for supporting the doors of the wago1'1-bod v.

A peculiar mechanism for raising the doors into horizontal positions, and temporarily retaining them therein, preparatory to the turn-buttons being turned around or moved, so as to pass Underneath the doors, is applied to the wagon-body. This mechanism may be thus described:

From the front end of a long shaft, K, arranged alongside of the body, and duly supported .in bearings, a hand-lever, L, is projected toward the seat, in mannor as represented. Besides this hand-lever, there are two arms, M M, extended from the shaft, one of such arms being at the front and the other at the rear of the wagon-body. Each 'of these arms, near itsinner end,-supports one of two grooved wheels, 9 g.

Chains h 11-, extending on the peripheries of .these wheels, and down therefrom,- h'ave their extremities fastened to the two doors.

A lever-latch, N, fixed to the wagon-body, and arranged, with respect to the seat andt he front arm M, in manner as represented, serves to catch the said arm when it is raised .to its highest position, and to there retain it.

From the above, it will be seen that the discharging of the load, and the subsequent raising of the .dOOIS of the wagon-body into horizontal positions,

maybe effected by the driver while sitting upon the In case of the arrival of the vehicle over a spotupon which it may be desirable to dischargethe load, the driver should first move the lever for-operating the turn-buttons, the movement being so as to move them from underneath the doors. Next, -he has only to push back the spring-latch N. The weight of the load and that of the doors will next depress or open the doors, and cause the discharge of the load from the wagon-body. By means of the handlever L, the driver, by pushing such lever from him,"can raise up the doors until the latch-lever may catch the front arm M, after which the locking of the doors may be effected by the diiver'through the means of the turnbuttons and their operative mechanism, as explained.

The middle bar B, of the bottom part of the body of the wagon, extends beyond the said body at its opposite ends, so to constitute a stop for the arms M M to fall upon.

I claim'the arrangement and combination of the chains h h, the grooved wheels '9 g, the arms M M, the shaft K, and the hand-lever L, applied to the wagon-body A, and its doors 0 D.

'l-also claim the arrangement and combination of the middle bar B with the wagon-body A, its .doors 0 D, and the mechanism, as described, for raising the said. doors. v

I also. claim the combination of the latching and ,,locking-mechanism, as specified, with the wagon-body,

its doors, and the mechanism,as explained, for raising the said doors.

CYRUS T. MOORE.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.. 

